Rose and I went to Beihuang Mountain, north of Zhehe City, and after passing through the canyon at the entrance to the mountain, we found a giant stone egg array, which was hatched with snakes the thickness of adult arms, but some of them had become a meal for other predators before they broke their shells.

Highly vigilant for the possibility of a giant snake appearing around us, Rose and I took a weakened girl rescued from under the broken eggshell through this strange breeding ground as fast as we could, and after stepping on a dirt slope, Rose immediately gave the girl first aid.

I put my hand on the side and worked with Rose to ensure the girl's life, and Rose fed her a little bit of water, and the girl's spirit finally recovered a little.

"Little sister, what's your name?" Rose asked softly.

Little sister? I secretly glanced at this young aunt, and I didn't dare to complain more about the uselessness, just said a sentence that almost asked her to give me two blows.

"Mom... Mom...... "The girl didn't seem to be able to say anything else, and called out 'Mommy' again, and she raised her hand and pointed into the mountains.

"Is your mother in the mountains?"

The girl nodded slowly, and then the newly recovered spirit was gone.

I touched her head, but luckily there was no sign of fever, and said, "She's too weak and needs a good rest." ”

Rose also knew this, she looked into the mountains and pondered for a while, and then said unexpectedly, "Let's go in a little more and see if we can find her mother." ”

I shrugged my shoulders and agreed, I knew early on that there was no way Rose, who was also about to become a mother, would have left such a little girl here.

"If we can find it," said Rose, picking up the sleeping girl, "the place where she can raise her child in the mountains will be suitable for us." ”

"...... we?"

Rose turned her head to look at me and said, "If the supplies are not enough or they don't accept us, you are responsible for driving everyone away and leaving no trouble." ”

This woman's eyes made me worried, and all these years of life and death cultivation seemed to be a piece of waste paper in front of her. I slapped myself secretly for the idea that I had just treated her as an ordinary woman.

We continued our march with the girl into the mountains, and in about five or six minutes we were completely out of the canyon and into the deeper part of the mountains, where there were more forests and higher weeds. I always had a vague feeling that I had entered some prehistoric movie prologue.

"Are you saying those snake eggs are mutations of the D virus?" While chatting on the way, I said to Rose, "We've seen some mutated creatures before, gorillas and the like, but we didn't expect such a big snake." ”

Rose's appearance can also be seen for the first time in this scene, but she is not too worried, and said: "It should be the D virus, if you compare it with the volume of ordinary snake eggs and female snakes, it is estimated that the big snake that can lay these eggs will not live long, and there are not many places near the human living area that can accommodate it." ”

"Whether the snake dies or not is not my primary concern," I swallowed and continued, "You also saw that the weasel is not small, it is almost a sperm!" So the point is, we don't know if this biological mutation is a very special case, or if the whole mountain ecosystem has become like this. ”

As she spoke, Rose suddenly stopped, and I looked in the direction she was looking, and in the distance, a village appeared on a flat field behind the undulating terrain.

"Looks like we've arrived."

"I'm not sure if going to the village is a good option."

Rose tried to wake up the girl and let her look at the village in front of her, the girl opened her eyes faintly, and was a little excited when she found the village, "Mom! Mom! Mom......"

Then she fell asleep again.

She didn't run away, and it was obvious that the village was her home.

Rose and I quickened our steps, and as the distance narrowed, the general outline of the village became clearer.

This is a downhill mountain village located between the valleys, there is a small river ditch in the north of the village, there are some big stones piled up under the big tree trunks next to it, the simple brick houses in the village do not know how many years have passed, the mottled roofs and wall stones of each house seem to tell the vicissitudes of the years, even such houses are not many in this mountain village, if you stand on a slightly higher ground and look at the village, you can see a comprehensive picture at a glance.

Rose and I stood at the entrance of the village and didn't dare to enter rashly, after all, we didn't know the situation in the village, and subconsciously wanted to observe for a while, trying to find some clues of life activities.

After a short time, the door of the room at the back of the village was suddenly pushed open from the inside, and an old woman walked out, judging from the white hair on the top of her head, she was over sixty years old, but the work under her feet was not in vain, and she could not walk like a fly or be unhurried.

The old woman didn't know where she was going with a basin, but when she looked up, she saw us, and with a bang, the basin fell to the ground.

"Old man! Come on! Come on! ”

The old woman suddenly clapped her thighs with both hands and shouted, and before long a spirited old man came out of the opposite room, still holding a cigarette pouch and pot in his hand, "What are you doing noisy!?" ”

The old woman pointed at us and almost didn't take a breath when she was in a hurry, and swallowed tightly before she drank, "Child! The kid is back! ”

"His cigarette pouch had to fall to the ground, too." I said quickly to Rose.

The old man turned his head to look at us, and when he saw us, he suddenly seemed to freeze all over.

If you remove the cause and effect, just this scene, I think it is very similar to the scene of children who have eloped away from home for many years and have not heard from them suddenly come home with their cubs for the New Year.

After a flutter, the old man knelt directly on the ground, and the cigarette pouch also fell aside.

Rose rolled over at me, and I shrugged, "Well, I didn't expect him to do that." ”

The old woman went up hatefully and patted the old man on the shoulder, and then walked quickly towards us, and stopped at a distance when she arrived.

"That's... Child? ”

Rose looked at the sleeping girl in her arms and asked, "What's wrong with the child?" ”

"I... I'm a child's grandmother! The old woman was so excited that she burst into tears, but she still endured it and didn't pounce.

"What's her name?" Rose asked again.

"Xiu'er! She's my granddaughter! The old woman finally caught up.

Rose did not hinder any longer, and let the old woman carry the girl over, and as soon as she arrived in her arms, the old woman threw herself on the ground and began to cry.

"Oh my show! I can see you! Where did you say you went? How would you live without me? What's wrong with you! Look at grandma! Speak! ”

This old woman cried heartbreakingly, and my heart trembled as if it was about to tremble. Rose quickly explained, "The kid has a head injury, but we've checked that it's fine, just get some rest." ”

The old woman stopped shouting, but the crying did not stop, not only I listened to the explosion of my ears, but even the village was affected by the crying far away, and more villagers came out of their houses to watch the excitement, and talked while watching. I looked over and saw that the villagers in my field of vision were all elderly people.

The old man who knelt on the ground behind struggled to get up, took the cigarette bag and pot and pinned it into the back of his neck, and came all the way upside down, and the black hand full of calluses of farm work wiped the tears on his face, he first touched the girl's head, and then patted the old woman's shoulder, and then he could not care to look up at us.

"Where are you two coming from?"